Why randitional conservative parties are ceasing to exist in the West

These days, the western media is constantly bemoaning the fall of the political center, the fact that traditional conservative parties in politics are largely ceasing to exist.  The media complains that politics are now "polarized" between extreme left and extreme right, and that this is a dangerous eventuality, far more dangerous than traditional centrist and conservative parties, that tended to favor consensus, and the status quo. The western  media is missing a fundamental point.  Political extremism is a symptom of a political disease, not the disease itself.  When people are content, they naturally favor centrists, conservatives, people who support the status quo.  However, when people are having difficulties, as they are at present in the Western world, they support change.  And, really, all change is radical and extreme, by definition.   There are no "conservative" changes. For centuries, the West dominated the world, invaded it, conquered it, exploited it.  This is no longer possible.  The rise of China and India as major military and economic powers makes this impossible. The US and Europe have declined in power and influence, and, this costs the people economically, and, they don't like it.   The Western people want to be dominant again.  They don't know how to do it, but, that's what they want. We can see this in the rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, which basically is a desire to go back to colonialism and gunboat diplomacy.  As we can see, this isn't working at all well in the Middle East, and Iran is giving major pushback, and effectively defeating US forces and driving them out of the region.  Canada is also fighting back against US neo-Imperialism, with considerable effectiveness.   The basic difference between the left and the right is that the right favors traditional solutions and the left favors new solutions.  Neither are perfect by any means.  However, it's relatively unlikely that old solutions can be used to solve new problems.  These old solutions have a comforting familiarity, but, they don't work now, anymore, in general.  On the other hand, trying fundamentally new approaches is a leap into the unknown, quite literally.  It's not clear where it will lead.  On the other hand, if present approaches aren't working, what alternative is there?  The communists hate the old approaches because they don't work.  The capitalists hate the new approaches, because they often don't work either.  However, what alternative is there, to trying new approaches, when current approaches do not work anymore? #media #politics #geopolitics #history #philosophyofhistory #economics #extremism #capitalism #communism #philosophy #metaphysics #donaldtrump #trump #imperialism #politicalscience